Pedestrian dies in hit-and-run accident

Published 12:33 pm Tuesday, July 1, 2008

A 22-year-old Renton man was struck and killed at about 11:30 p.m. June 27 while walking in the roadway of Des Moines Memorial Drive South.

The incident occurred in the 9700 block, which is the Boulevard Park neighborhood of unincorporated King County.

The man died at the scene.

Responding deputies recognized the victim from a disturbance call involving two men less than a half hour earlier at the nearby Rascal’s Casino, 9635 Des Moines Memorial Drive. Working with casino security, the deputies identified the other man involved in the casino disturbance as a 29-year-old Tukwila resident.

Deputies went to the man’s address, a Tukwila trailer park, and found a 1991 Toyota Previa minivan parked outside. The vehicle had body damage consistent with striking a pedestrian.

The deputies eventually located the driver and arrested him on charges of Vehicular Homicide.

Detectives are still investigating the case. As of Thursday morning, they did not know why the victim was walking in the roadway.